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Paul O'Brien is being sued by a woman who says she trapped her hand in his letterbox while posting mail. Joy Goodman, a cake decorator in her late 40s, is seeking damages for personal injury and loss of earnings.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51661/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/51661/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Dealing With Junk-Mail - The Fun Way]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear Bulk Mailer,<br/><br/>Please find attached to your no-postage-necessary envelope, this brick. I figured with all these great junk mails you send me every month, you'd like something in return! I know it costs twenty cents for every ounce I mail to you, so I hope it doesn't weigh too much more than an ounce.<br/><br/>-Resident or Homeowner]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57041/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57041/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[3 GB of GMail love: no more sign-up restrictions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting Feb. 14, Google removed the requirement to enter a mobile phone number capable of receiving SMS messages, or being invited by an existing user.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10866/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/10866/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hairdresser sued for refusing to hire Muslim woman in a headscarf]]></title><description><![CDATA[The owner of a hair salon is being sued for religious discrimination for refusing to hire a Muslim woman who wears a headscarf. Sarah Desrosiers, 32, says she turned down Bushra Noah as a junior stylist to maintain the image of her salon, which specialises in &quot;urban, funky&quot; cuts. She told Miss Noah, 19, she needed her staff to display their hairstyles to the public.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41164/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41164/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Guerrilla Mail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Guerrilla Mail provides you with disposable e-mail addresses which expire after 15 minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given time frame.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13369/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13369/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither rain, nor sleet, nor complex puzzles stays these couriers...]]></title><description><![CDATA[One woman decided to find out exactly what lengths the men and women of the Royal Mail were willing to go to to deliver the mail. To put them to the test she concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in a series of increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79300/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79300/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Introducing P-Mail: Paper based e-mail]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's just like e-mail, only slower and costlier. Simply print out a template, write with actual ink on it, and send by post!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9425/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9425/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Money in mail comes with message from God]]></title><description><![CDATA[Residents said up to 60 post office box holders in the small Northern Southland town received $10 in the mail complete with a letter encouraging them to contact God on Friday.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79519/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/79519/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Hang Him! Top Internet Spammer Busted]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now that a federal grand jury returned a 35-count indictment charging the 27 year old Sacramento man with mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering, expect an &quot;immediate, perceptible decrease in the amount of junk e-mail winging its way across the Web.&quot;]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22178/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22178/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadian mail service suspends delivery  due to &quot;Dog Poo Hazard&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow will prevent delivery of the mail but excessive amounts of dog shizzit will! Mail delivery was suspeneded to 13 housing units in St. Johns, Newfoundland until residents break out the pooper scoopers.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/13885/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/13885/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[E-snailer]]></title><description><![CDATA[This will convert your email to snail mail, address it and snail mail it to recipient.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45661/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45661/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Indian man makes Robo-servant from junk]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Indian inventor has found a novel way of helping the poor - by turning old junk into a reliable piece of machinery that can walk and talk. Feroz Siddiki has spent two years developing the IRobo and hopes it will eventually rival more expensive robots like Asimo made by the Japanese company Honda. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=68137&amp;videoChannel=4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">VIDEO</a>]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37751/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/37751/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Kid gets  Mail to Grandpa 'Washing Machine Man&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[Grandson sent grandfather mail with no address only writing on envelope 'Washing Machine Man, Ixworth&quot;.  The Royal Mail actually delivered this letter to the right guy!]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/176/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/176/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Junk Collector Finds $50 Million Worth of 1930s Depression-Era Bills]]></title><description><![CDATA[Craig Sexton of 1-800-Got Junk has seen all kinds of weird things in the many estate clean-ups he's done. There was a fridge of rotted cheese and rotted cans of salmon. But nothing prepared Sexton for what he found in the suite above an old deli called the Lido in east Vancouver in  February.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/68574/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/68574/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Polish mail slower than snail]]></title><description><![CDATA[An IT worker, after receiving a letter on January 3 that was sent on December 20 as priority mail, calculated that a snail would have made it even faster to his home than the letter. His boss was unavailable for comment.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48234/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48234/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Revealed: The shocking 6ft mountain of junk mail delivered to just one home in 12 months]]></title><description><![CDATA[Anne Cohen decided to collect the stack of bumph to show how companies are bombarding homeowners.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45956/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45956/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Obese child can stay with mother]]></title><description><![CDATA[British social workers have decided to allow an 8-year-old boy who weighs almost 200 pounds (91 kilograms) to remain at home with his mother, who has refused to stop feeding him junk food...]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11776/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11776/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Postmen find poison snakes in express mail]]></title><description><![CDATA[Postal workers in a Brazilian border town knew there was something suspicious about the shipments from Argentina and were stunned to find scorpions and poisonous snakes in the express mail.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18677/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18677/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Junk food ban recommended for schools ]]></title><description><![CDATA[An expert panel has said that schools must ban junk foods like sugary drinks, cakes and chips in order to tackle childhood obesity effectively. The Institute of Medicine report was compiled following a request by the Congress.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18375/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18375/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Mysterious object probably space junk]]></title><description><![CDATA[A mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home earlier this year was not a meteorite after all, but probably a piece of space junk, scientists said Friday.]]></description><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/19975/1/</link><guid>http://www.plime.com/science/l/19975/1/</guid><category>plime.com</category><pubDate></pubDate> </item><item><title><![CDATA[Serial Mail Bomber]]></title><description><![CDATA[Three mail bombs have exploded within the last three days in the UK, a total of seven bombs over a three week period.  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